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On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 16:47:14 +0200 |
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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> > For example, people might think they can start masking |
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> > cat/pkg[flag]. Is this a replacement for package.use.mask or does |
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> > it mean something else? I have a sneaking suspicion that if there's |
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> > not a policy saying "no use deps in profiles" then people will |
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> > start trying to use them for all kinds of horrible hacks that would |
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> > be better being fixed properly. |
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> Do you consider masking USE flags in repositories a 'horrible hack'? |
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> Because that's the use I see for newer-EAPI profile. |
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I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. |
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Which is pretty much the problem: it's really not clear what use |
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dependencies in profile files mean. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |